While Major League Baseball prepares to start the 2020 season next month, baseball’s minor leagues canceled its seasons due to the coronavirus pandemic.
June 30 (UPI) — While Major League Baseball prepares to start the 2020 season next month, baseball’s minor leagues canceled its seasons due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues, the minor league governing body, made the expected announcement Tuesday. The season’s fate was essentially sealed when MLB informed minor league clubs that it would not be providing players to them this season because of the COVID-19 outbreak.
It is the first time in the history of Minor League Baseball — which was founded in 1901 and currently consists of 160 teams — that a season has been scrapped.
